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The Ent. Mo. Mag. of last September gave many interesting 

 details of the life and labours of this distinguished Naturalist, 

 supplied largely by his colleague, Anton Handlirsch, and 

 illustrated by a portrait, which revives in me pleasing recol- 

 lections of the sole occasion on which I had the honour of 

 meeting him, that of a brief visit paid in 1899 to his 

 Department in the Hof museum. 



Ordinary Fellows. 



Samuel James Capper, who died at Liverpool on Jan. 1st 

 of last year, at the great age of 87, became a Fellow in 1890, 

 and was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society ; but his record 

 as an Entomologist is more particularly connected with the 

 progress of our science in the North of England, and especi- 

 ally with the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, 

 which was practically founded by him in 1877, and over which 

 he presided from that year till his death. To an earlier 

 generation he was widely known as an energetic and most 

 successful collector of British Lepidoptera. He is described 

 by such as knew him personally — I regret that I had not that 

 advantage — as a learned and enthusiastic naturalist, with 

 personal qualities which contributed to the esteem and respect 

 which he enjoyed. 



Thomas Boyd, who died (aged 83) on Feb. 2nd, was, with 

 one exception, our " senior Fellow," elected in 1852. Thence- 

 forth for some years his name figured repeatedly and promi- 

 nently in the entomological serials of the day. Between 

 1853 and 1858 he added at least 11 n. spp. (all I believe 

 Micro- Lepidoptera) to the British List, some of which were 

 also " new to science." Why exactly an entomological career, 

 which had commenced so brilliantly, should have closed (as 

 appears to have been the case) abruptly and entirely, from 

 that time forth, I do not know. Perhaps, as I have seen it 

 suggested, his entomological pursuits were simply crowded 

 out by other interests : — he was an expert also in Botany, 

 Conchology, Microscopy, etc. But possibly it is more than a 

 mere coincidence, that he closed his career as a wiiter in 

 Entomological journals with a vigorous defence of Darwin, 

 published in the Weekly Intelligencer^ and protesting earnestly 



